It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
AGNES REPPLIERWe cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Friendship takes time.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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